Prequalified companies invited to bid on West Park Healthcare Centre development project

TORONTO – Infrastructure Ontario (IO) and West Park Healthcare Centre have released a request for proposals (RFP) to three teams prequalified to design, build, finance and maintain the new hospital development project in Toronto. The release of the RFP marks a critical milestone in the project, enabling the teams to begin work on proposals for the new facility.

“We are very excited to have reached this important milestone for a project that will serve the healthcare needs of Ontarians for years to come, while creating jobs and building up the economy,” said Bob Chiarelli, Minister of Infrastructure.

An open, competitive request for qualifications process, overseen by IO and West Park, began in September 2016. This process identified three teams with the design and construction capability, facilities management experience and financial capacity to deliver a project of this size and scope. The prequalified teams invited to submit proposals for the project are:

Targeting LEED Silver in the Canada Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) rating system, the project will see the construction of a new hospital facility totalling approximately 730,000 square feet. Other project features include:

Three hundred and fourteen beds, with 80 per cent of beds in single-patient rooms

Three-piece private washroom for each patient, even in double occupancy rooms

Significant increase in outpatient care space to accommodate current and new services such as geriatric clinics and day hospital, and satellite hemodialysis

Demolition of three existing hospital buildings – Main, Ruddy and Gage – as well as the existing maintenance buildings

New campus entrance with new public and private roads within the campus

Once the RFP submissions are received, IO and West Park will evaluate submissions and select the successful bidder. The winning bidder is expected to be announced in summer 2018, with construction to follow shortly thereafter.

Ontario is making the largest infrastructure investment in hospitals, schools, public transit, roads and bridges in the province’s history. To learn more about what’s happening in your community, go to Ontario.ca/BuildON.

Quick Facts

This project is being delivered using IO’s Alternative Financing and Procurement (AFP) model, an innovative way of financing and procuring large, complex public infrastructure projects.

IO and the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care are working with West Park Healthcare Centre to develop the facility, which will be publicly owned, controlled and accountable.

According to Ontario’s 2017 Long-Term Report on the Economy, every $1 spent on public infrastructure has been shown to increase GDP by $6 in the long term.